Does Quantum Time Have a Preferred Direction?

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  • BRYAN W. ROBERTS
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This paper states and proves a precise sense in which, if all the measurable properties of an ordinary quantum mechanical system are ultimately derivable from position, then time in quantum mechanics can have no preferred direction. In particular, I show that when the position observable forms a complete set of commuting observables, Galilei invariant quantum mechanics is guaranteed to be time reversal invariant.

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تاریخ انتشار 2011